Re: DIY TIVO?

["Phil Johnson" <whiskybob@xxxxxxx>]

According to a recent posting on the UK TiVo forum it has been done http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum12/HTML/000890.html.  I'd like to open up my TiVo to have a nose around, but with 6 months of the guarantee left, I think I'll hold off :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Phil Harris

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:26 AM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?

Has anyone hacked the UK TIVO's to get larger hard discs in them yet?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 February 2001 22:34
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?
>
>
> I was interested to read about Tivo hacking somewhere and
> learn that its
> basically a L***X machine.
>
> Steve.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:51 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] DIY TIVO?
>
>
> > Has anybody seen the spec for the new ATI All-in-Wonder
> RADEON card, and
> > thought about using this instead of a "proper" Tivo box?
> >
> > It retails for between £180-£220 (depending on where you shop!)
> >
> > Apart from sounding like a new whizzo washing powder, it
> includes all the
> > usual All-in-Wonder features, EG TV tuner on-board,
> Video-in, Video-out,
> > MPEG decoder etc. etc. It also has (IIRC) 32MB of DDR
> SDRAM, but more
> > importantly, includes Tivo-like software, enabling it to be
> used in just
> the
> > same way as a Tivo, IE: Pause Live TV, Instant replay,
> record to HDD etc,
> > and probably best-of all includes a subscription-free TV
> guide service...
> >
> > The full specs are here:
> > http://www.ati.com/uk/pages/products/pc/aiw_radeon/index.html
> >
> > If this were used as the heart of a custom DIY Tivo solution, then
> provided
> > it was well executed, it strikes me it has the potential to
> be better than
> a
> > "real" Tivo, for less money. - And you can expand the disk
> capacity as
> much
> > as you like....
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
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